You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTSYou do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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